Northern Rail Train Guards are here to help you. Train Guards are safety critical staff, vital to ensuring passengers have a safe, secure and accessible railway.

• We help passengers in the event of an emergency such as a derailment, evacuation or fire.• We help provide security and assurance, especially for vulnerable passengers.• We help many older and disabled passengers on and off trains and during their journey.• We help provide expert travel advice to improve your journey.

The Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling wants to end the help we provide. He has told Arriva Rail North to remove Guards and introduce Driver Only Trains.

We are fighting these plans and have taken many days strike action and are suffering financial hardship.